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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Cambridge based VP’ operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a VP’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Blanca Baez
SVP, Global Head Pharma & Biotech of Molecular Health
Blanca Baez joined Molecular Health GmbH as SVP, Global Head Pharma & Biotech in 2016.
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About Molecular Health: Molecular Health offers software solutions for evidence-based healthcare decision support and smarter drug development.
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Mosin Badkar
Co-Founder and VP of Cardiac Design Labs
Mosin Badkar is responsible for product R and D and Algorithms. His scope includes design of new products, prototyping of design and proof of concept. His scope also includes planning and tracking of new product designs, system level and various software development activities.
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About Cardiac Design Labs: Cardiac Design Labs is into designing, developing, deploying and selling intelligent devices for medical purpose.
Scott Bradley
VP Product Strategy of OM1
Scott is the past-president of New England HIMSS and the Vice President of Product Strategy at OM1, a start-up using big data and machine learning to help solve healthcare problems. He previously co-founded CentrosHealth, which merged with Clinical Ink in March 2015. Scott is an experienced health-tech product manager and strategist. Before starting CentrosHealth, Scott led product management for late phase and real world research at Quintiles (NYSE: Q), the world’s largest Clinical Research Organization (CRO). From 2006 to 2011, Scott worked at PHT and managed the LogPad eDiary and NetPRO, PHT’s post-market product offering, both supporting Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) and the eSense portfolio of integrated medical devices. He’s worked in the medical device industry including at Draeger Medical and Guidant’s Cardiac Rhythm Management division, now part of Boston Scientific. Early in his career, Scott served on active duty in the US Army as a Signal Corps officer, leaving in 2003 at the rank of Captain where he was a Network Manager supporting the US Army’s Asia-Pacific theater.
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About OM1: OM1 is a healthcare technology company that leverages real-world clinical data for medical research and personalized medicine.
Andrew Frame
VP Business Development of Secure Thingz
Andrew Frame joined Secure Thingz in 2019 as VP Business Development. Prior to this Andrew was Director of Business Development within the Emerging Business Group at Arm. In his 23+ years at Arm, Andrew held a number of key roles most notably Director IoT Technologies and Cortex-M Product Management. Andrew holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Studies from Sheffield Hallam University.
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About Secure Thingz: Secure Thingz a focus on developing and delivering advanced security solutions into the emerging Industrial Internet of Things.
Jim Rose
Vice President of Marketing of Intersystems
Jim Rose leads the global marketing and branding strategy for InterSystems. He brings more than 25 years of marketing experience to the role from his work with high-technology leaders and creative marketing agencies. He was previously Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Symantec Corp., where he led global marketing for the company’s data management and security software. He also held senior marketing roles at IBM, including Vice President of Digital Marketing and Vice President of Integrated Marketing Communications. Jim’s experience also includes 12 years with advertising agencies including Ogilvy and Mather, where he was Vice President Account Supervisor for the Compaq account. As a licensed Airline Transport Pilot, Jim has volunteered for Angel Flight NE, which flies patients to treatment facilities who would otherwise have no access to commercial air transport. His honors include a Silver Effie Award for proven marketing effectiveness from the American Marketing Association. He holds an MBA from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, and a bachelor of science degree in aerospace from Indiana State University.
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About Intersystems: InterSystems is a vendor of software and technology for high-performance database management, integration, and health information systems.
Paul Grabscheid
Vice President of Strategic Planning of Intersystems
Since 1986, Paul Grabscheid has used his expertise in database and application development tools and technologies in a variety of product planning and marketing roles at InterSystems. Prior to that, he served as director of marketing for Mathematica, a database and 4GL software company, helping to expand the company’s worldwide presence. When the company was acquired by Martin Marietta he served as director of marketing for that firm’s Information Technology Division, overseeing marketing efforts for a number of system software, application software, and computer services product lines. Grabscheid’s background also includes consulting work involving the development of decision support systems for state governments. He holds a master’s degree from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Intersystems: InterSystems is a vendor of software and technology for high-performance database management, integration, and health information systems.
Joe DeSantis
Vice President of HealthShare Platforms of Intersystems
Joe DeSantis is responsible for all aspects of the InterSystems HealthShare informatics platform, including software development, product marketing, and business development. He previously worked with Liant Software Corporation as vice president of research & development, where he was responsible for product vision, architecture, and development of object-oriented development tools. DeSantis co-founded Oakland Group, Inc., where he served as vice president of research & development and oversaw the architecture, design and development of the C-scape Interface Management System. DeSantis got his start at Zoom Telephonics, Inc. as a senior engineer responsible for designing consumer telecommunications devices. He studied electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Intersystems: InterSystems is a vendor of software and technology for high-performance database management, integration, and health information systems.
Heather Richards
VP Product Strategy and GTM, KM of Verint Systems
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About Verint Systems: Verint Systems provides Actionable Intelligence solutions for enterprise workforce optimization and security intelligence.
Ricardo Herreros-Symons
VP, Sales of Speechmatics
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About Speechmatics: Global experts in deep learning and speech recognition
Will Williams
VP Machine Learning of Speechmatics
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About Speechmatics, Speechmatics: Global experts in deep learning and speech recognition
Will Williams
VP Machine Learning of Speechmatics
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About Speechmatics, Speechmatics: Global experts in deep learning and speech recognition
Bret Connor
SVP, Chief Customer Officer of Athenahealth
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About Athenahealth: Athenahealth is a provider of medical practice automation and claims management software to medical groups and health systems.
Michael Sierra
Vice President of LEO Science & Tech Hub
Michael Sierra, Ph.D. is currently Vice President of LEO Science & Tech Hub Cambridge (USA). Prior to this position, he held the positions of Director of Medicinal Chemistry, Director of Chemical Research, Director of External Discovery and Executive Director of Translational Research at LEO Pharma (Denmark). Before that, Michael worked 10 years at GlaxoSmithkline’s Centre de Recherche, Les Ulis (France) and the biotech, CareX, Strasbourg (France) as Head of Chemistry. He received his BS in chemistry from Ohio Northern University (USA), his Ph.D. in chemistry at Wayne State University (USA) and held a 2 year post doctoral position at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France). He has 24 years of drug discovery experience in the therapeutic areas of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases as well as inflammation and dermatology with the identification of 18 clinical candidates.
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About LEO Science & Tech Hub: LEO Science & Tech Hub explore cutting-edge science and technology opportunities with relevance for dermatology.
Steve Clarke
CTO and SVP Engineering (IoT) of Wyld Networks AB
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About Wyld Networks AB: Wyld Networks enables affordable low power IoT connectivity through LEO satellites.
Adam Kersnowski
EVP Customer Success of AirWorks
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About AirWorks: AirWorks develops AI-powered software to create automated maps from aerial data, building future of mapping for the built environment.
Meghan Golden
Vice President, Operations of Cumulus Digital Systems
Meghan is a Vice President of Operations and leads the Product Deployment team. Prior to co-founding Cumulus, she was a Program Manager at Shell TechWorks, Shell’s technology center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At STW, Meghan led the Smart Torque System program from inception to commercialization and supported multiple deployments of the system throughout the world. Prior to joining Shell, Meghan worked in the Defense Industry and served for 6 years on active duty as an officer in the U.S. Army. Meghan enjoys being active and spending time with her husband, Steve, and their three daughters Eleanor, Victoria, and Cecilia. Meghan earned a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) from the Project Management Institute. She is a combat veteran of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom and recipient of the Bronze Star Medal.
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About Cumulus Digital Systems: Cumulus Digital Systems is a startup building an Internet of Tools-powered platform to make industrial facilities safer.
Marcio Macedo
Co-Founder & VP Products of Ava Robotics
Marcio is Co-Founder and VP Products at Ava Robotics. Previously, Marcio was Director of Product Management for commercial robots at iRobot where he led the product strategy for iRobot’s industry-leading autonomous robots for commercial applications. A video conferencing industry veteran, prior to iRobot Marcio served in product management leadership roles at HP, Polycom, and PictureTel Corp. Marcio has a BSEE from the Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, an MSEE from Northeastern University and an MBA from Babson College.
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About Ava Robotics: Ava Robotics is a robotics technology company that designs and builds intelligent robots for the workplace.
Daniel Spector
SVP Technology of Virtual Solutions
Daniel Spector is the Technology Director, Enterprise Crowdsourcing at Lionbridge.
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About Virtual Solutions: Virtual Solutions provides clients a secure, highly scalable human technology workforce that is available on demand.
Nick Parsons
CTO and Vice President of Engineering of Polatis
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About HUBER+SUHNER, Polatis: Polatis is a tech company delivering optical switching solutions for remote fiber-layer provisioning, protection and monitoring.
Peter Hardy
Vice President of Marketing and Business Development of Software Bisque
Peter is Sky Publishing’s Advertising Sales Director. He comes to Sky with more than 14 years of advertising sales experience. He has worked for such well-known publishers as Ziff-Davis and Cahners in both sales and managerial capacities. His experience includes working on business-to-business and consumer magazines. Peter says his greatest professional satisfaction comes from helping companies succeed in growing the markets for their products through advertising in magazines, on the Web, and in other media. Peter earned a B.A. in Political Science at the University of Massachusetts. He has always been interested in astronomy and looks forward to immersing himself in the hobby, not only for business but also for pleasure.
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About Software Bisque: Software Bisque manufactures precision robotic telescope mounts and publishes astronomy software for digital imagers.
